Alienware 17 R2 980M/4980HQ

Good evening guys I've just received my refurbished Alienware notebook, initially it was completely dead the Laptop wouldn't even post to CPU damage apparently and Dell sent and engineer to my offices to repair it which worked absolutely fine. However since then I've been using it quite a bit and noticed how hot it's getting.

So after some research people were saying 240W PSU was absolutely needed to ensure it can deliver enough power to the laptop. So I'm using the 240W PSU now however my CPU is currently sitting at like 70 under very little load if I leave it completely idle it goes to around 65 and underload about 80 degrees however this is only because of the A00 bios that I reverted the machine to as A05 was getting the CPU close to around 94 degrees.

I was hoping somebody out there has worked out the best combination of cooling this and maintaining nice temperatures perhaps a third party tool to set a fan profile as Alienware don't supply one (Shocked)

I have to say I haven't been impressed if I had bought this for 2.2k from Dell it would be going straight back but because I only paid 1.3k it seems like I should give it a go. Also the sound isn't the best from this keeps stuttering and juggering. I'm hoping there's somebody out there with a laptop like mine and has got it working nicely for them as currently this laptop runs far too hot for my liking. I'm going to run 3DMARK firestrike also and will post the results back with temperatures and scores to see if you think they're normal.

Thanks for reading my thread and input would be highly appreciated

 

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/8287159

Results GPU didn't go above 68 Degrees which is a good sign

However the CPU as a package went as high as 95 Degrees. Which would suggest it either started to throttle (These temperatures are far too high) also on the right hand heatsink there's an awful rattling sound would be bug the hell out of me what should I do guys? It would appear that the Laptop can't cope?

 

I think there's a problem, I got around 8700-8900 with a stock 3630QM and a 980M.
Maybe the CPU is throttling, bottlenecking the GPU. Did you try re-pasting it? buying laptop cooling pad?

 

Must be CPU is reaching 96 Degree's

 

If your CPU is reaching 90+ degrees, there is your problem. Repasting the CPU should help decrease the temperatures dramatically and help avoid throttling.

980m (slv7 vbios, some OC) with 3740QM CPU:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5552678

 

Seems like a massive overclock to me? your GPU score is 3000 above mine?

 

215 on core and 450 on memory if I am not mistaken over SLV7 default clocks. I can see on your score you were using stock clocks of stock vBIOS. You really need a re-paste job on your CPU first though.

 

Do you think that it's really holding it back

It's happening tomorrow so fingers crossed.

 

You should probably post this in the appropriate forum.

This is for the AW17 R1 + M17. You have the R2. Might get better results/more answers in the other forum.